Richard J. Evans

Richard J. Evans is provost of Gresham College, London. His most recent book is Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History.

In the LRB Archive:

• The Demented Dalek: Michael Gove · 12 September 2019

  • Michael Gove: A Man in a Hurry by Owen Bennett

• Whiter Washing: Nazi Journalists · 6 June 2019

  • Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer: From Inner Emigration to the Moral Reconstruction of West Germany by Volker Berghahn

• Nuts about the Occult: ‘Hitler’s Monsters’ · 2 August 2018

  • Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich by Eric Kurlander

• Men He Could Trust: Hitler’s Stormtroopers · 22 February 2018

  • Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts by Daniel Siemens

• Wait and See: The French Resistance · 3 November 2016

  • The French Resistance by Olivier Wieviorka, translated by Jane Marie Todd

• Your Soft German Heart: ‘The German War’ · 14 July 2016

  • The German War: A Nation under Arms, 1939-45 by Nicholas Stargardt

• Lobbying: Hitler’s Aristocratic Go-Betweens · 17 March 2016

  • Go-Betweens for Hitler by Karina Urbach

• These people are intolerable: Hitler and Franco · 5 November 2015

  • Hitler’s Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics and the Spanish Civil War by Pierpaolo Barbieri

• Written into History: The Nazi View of History · 22 January 2015

  • A World without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide by Alon Confino
  • How Could This Happen: Explaining the Holocaust by Dan McMillan

• ‘Equality exists in Valhalla’: German Histories · 4 December 2014

  • Germany: Memories of a Nation by Neil MacGregor
  • Germany: Memories of a Nation

• The Conspiracists: The Reichstag Fire · 8 May 2014

  • Burning the Reichstag: An Investigation into the Third Reich’s Enduring Mystery by Benjamin Carter Hett

• Disorderly Cities: WW2 Town Planning · 5 December 2013

  • A Blessing in Disguise: War and Town Planning in Europe, 1940-45 edited by Jörn Düwel and Niels Gutschow

• Autoerotisch: The VW Beetle · 12 September 2013

  • The People’s Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle by Bernhard Rieger

• Marx v. The Rest: Marx in His Time · 23 May 2013

  • Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life by Jonathan Sperber

• Thank you, Dr Morell: Was Hitler ill? · 21 February 2013

  • Was Hitler Ill? by Hans-Joachim Neumann and Henrik Eberle, translated by Nick Somers

• Kisses for the Duce: Letters to Mussolini · 7 February 2013

  • Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy by Christopher Duggan
  • The Fascist Party and Popular Opinion in Mussolini’s Italy by Paul Corner

• Prophet in a Tuxedo: Walter Rathenau · 22 November 2012

  • Walther Rathenau: Weimar’s Fallen Statesman by Shulamit Volkov

• Nothing They Wouldn’t Do: Krupp · 21 June 2012

  • Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm by Harold James

• Gruesomeness is my policy: German Colonialism · 9 February 2012

  • German Colonialism: A Short History by Sebastian Conrad

• Spot and Sink: The End of WW1 · 15 December 2011

  • With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 by David Stevenson

• Into Dust: Nazis 1945 · 8 September 2011

  • The End: Hitler’s Germany 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw

• The Wonderfulness of Us: The Tory Interpretation of History · 17 March 2011

• The Scramble for Europe: German Imperialism · 3 February 2011

  • Nazi Empire: German Colonialism and Imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler by Shelley Baranowski

• Who remembers the Poles?: Between Hitler and Stalin · 4 November 2010

  • Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

• Cite ourselves!: The Annales School · 3 December 2009

  • The Annales School: An Intellectual History by André Burguière, translated by Jane Marie Todd

• Let’s Learn from the English: The Nazi Empire · 25 September 2008

  • Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe by Mark Mazower

• A Most Irksome Matter: Murder in 18th-century Hamburg · 6 July 2006

  • Liaisons Dangereuses: Sex, Law and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great by Mary Lindemann

• Weimarama · 8 November 1990

  • Male Fantasies Vol. I: Women, Floods, Bodies, History by Klaus Theweleit, translated by Chris Turner, Erica Carter and Stephen Conway
  • Male Fantasies Vol. II: Male Bodies: Psychoanalysing the White Terror by Klaus Theweleit, translated by Chris Turner, Erica Carter and Stephen Conway

• One nation, two states · 21 December 1989

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